My wife and I are just trying to enjoy every day as if it may be the last. The way things are going it will only be a couple of days between, "Well this shit is getting serious" to mushroom clouds.
Thank you, Caitlin, for this poem expressing so beautifully what I keep trying to tell myself. Thank you for being a beautifully powerful messenger all the time. We are lucky to have you.
Your ... resonance of a poem sent me off on a journey to hear the nearest resonant poet who came to mind. In order of appearance:
You Want it Darker ... You Got Me Singin' ... If It Be Your Will ...
Then, due partly to my lack of attention, I was reminded of "Democracy" ... which used to really inspire me at one point in the not-too-distant past. But this time provoked more of a sigh.
Take another drag on that cigarette and look at the landscape around you.
Love to you from the underbelly of the beast in rural Red Texas. I'm so glad you're around.
Text is as usual interesting but warning – don’t watch video. Russian prisoners with freshly cut throats by Ukrainian Nazis whose salaries are now paid by US taxpayers.
Corrupt war criminal Biden and his war party cabal declared that the highest domestic threat is -- white supremacy -- while supporting Ukraine Nazis in his proxy war against capitalist Russia
THE WELL OF SORROW
There is a well at the roadside of life,
A deep, deep well, whose water is soft.
And man passeth upon
The dusty roadway singing.
Youth in gay array, yea, and age
Still in gay raiment masquerading!
There is a well at the roadside of life;
And men are thirsty, and they come
With their empty hearts like rusted cups,
Pleading for a quaff.
And behold, beside the well is one
Who smiles, and brings forth the water, pouring
With gentle hand unto the proffered cups,
And they drink and go forth weeping,
And call the water bitter!
Yet the one beside the well, smiles,
And watches man as he proceeds,
And whispers: "Drink, Drink, for in the drinking
Art thou become deep";
For no man's thirst may e'er be quenched
To his heart's satisfaction, save that he sup -
Of the waters of the well of Sorrow!
~PW
Superb. Thanks for sharing.
I agree. LM Dotson (WV)
Cousin!?
Could be!! Are you in WV? And still practicing somewhere?
Now in FL. GGF was from Grayson Co., KY, so there are a few Dotson genes floating around up there. Work part-time. Cannabis medicine now....
My folk were from Virginia/ WV, GGF fought in the Civil War for the Union. I'm in California, retired nurse.
Probably related... GGGF Dotson was a Union Chaplain for the 125th US Colored Infantry unit in KY (guarded prisons apparently).
My wife and I are just trying to enjoy every day as if it may be the last. The way things are going it will only be a couple of days between, "Well this shit is getting serious" to mushroom clouds.
Great love ode .
Love it and appreciate whatever we can
and come what may.
This world was made for a mad love.
Thank you, Caitlin, for this poem expressing so beautifully what I keep trying to tell myself. Thank you for being a beautifully powerful messenger all the time. We are lucky to have you.
Love is the only way out. Showing and sharing. Unto the abyss.
I like the "Sauron eye of Google" bit. Very clever!
Bless you Caitlin, in the final analysis love is all there is.
thanks!
💕👍
Thank you.
Your ... resonance of a poem sent me off on a journey to hear the nearest resonant poet who came to mind. In order of appearance:
You Want it Darker ... You Got Me Singin' ... If It Be Your Will ...
Then, due partly to my lack of attention, I was reminded of "Democracy" ... which used to really inspire me at one point in the not-too-distant past. But this time provoked more of a sigh.
Take another drag on that cigarette and look at the landscape around you.
Love to you from the underbelly of the beast in rural Red Texas. I'm so glad you're around.
Text is as usual interesting but warning – don’t watch video. Russian prisoners with freshly cut throats by Ukrainian Nazis whose salaries are now paid by US taxpayers.
https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/06/27/ukraine-garrison-evacuating-lisichansk-russian-or-lugansk-forces-now-reportedly-inside-the-city-also-karma-strikes-as-russians-claim-to-bag-the-bearded-georgian-merc-shown-in-the-infamous-prisone/
Corrupt war criminal Biden and his war party cabal declared that the highest domestic threat is -- white supremacy -- while supporting Ukraine Nazis in his proxy war against capitalist Russia
beautiful 💕🕊
Great!